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CHRIST   CHURCH   CATHEDRAL, 


FREDERICTON,    N.  B., 


AUGUST    31,    1853; 


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IIIM   RIGHT   REV.   HORATIO   SOUTIKJA'I'K,   D.D 

l.VIK    MISSIONAIIY  lilSIIOI-    AT    lUNSTA.NTI.NOI'l.i:,    AM)    ICKCTUIl    OK   TIIK 
CHUUCII   OF  THE   ADVENT,   HUSTON,   MASS. 


PUBLISHED    BY    REQUEST    OF    THE    BISHOP    AND    CLERGY    01-     THE 
DIOCESE    OF    FREDERICTON. 


BOSTON: 
TICKNOR,    REED,    AND    FIELDS 

M  DCCC  LI  11. 


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TIIK    BISHOP,    CLERGY,   AND    LAITY 


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THK    DlOCKSi:   OK    FlfKDKIMCTON, 


THIS    KOITION    OI' 


THE    SKRBION     PRKACHED    AT    THE    CONSECRATION     OF    THKll! 

rATIIKDRAL    CHTTRCH, 


IS    nrSPF.f'TFVIJ.Y   I'nrSR.NTKP 


MY 

THE   I'ARTSH   OF   THE  ADVENT, 

AS    AN   HUMIir.E   OFFERING   ON   OrCA8ION   OF  THE  CONSECRATION,    AMI    AH   A 

•l()KI-\    ()F  TIIK   LOVE   AND   FELLOWSHIP    IN  WniCII   TflEV    Mil;   iiNK 

WITH    THEM  IN   THE   COMMUNION   OF  TIIK 

CATHOLIC    OHimcH. 


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()  Almighty  God,    who  iiast  built  thy   Ciiukcii   upon    tuk 
Foundation  of  the  Apostles  and  pRoriiETs,  Jesus  Christ  him- 

SELr   BEING    the    IIeAD    CoRNER-StONE  ;    GRANT   US  SO  TO  BE  JOINED 

together  in  Unity  of  Spirit  by  their  Doctrine,  that  ave  mav 
BE  made  an  Holy  Temple  acceptable  unto  Thee  ;  through 
Jesus  Christ  our  Lord.    Amen. 


SERMON. 


"  Foil  MY  BUETHIIEN  AND  CoMl'ANIONs'  SAKES,  I 
WILL    NOW  SAY,    PeACE    HE  WITHIN    THEE."  Psulm 

cxxii.  8. 

David  hero  doclarcs  liis  desire  for  the  prosperity 
of  Jerusalem,  hccaiisc  it  was  the  home  of  his  kin- 
(h-ed  and  his  friends.  But  in  the  next  verse,  (which 
I  woidd  therefore  incorporate  as  a  part  of  my  text,) 
he  adds  anotlicr  argument  of  a  still  higher  charac- 
ter: "Because  of  the  House  of  the  Lord  our 
God,  I  will  seek  thy  good."  The  sacred  associ- 
ation hallowed  the  place.  Jerusalem  was  linked 
in  his  affections  with  the  worship  which  had  de- 
scended from  distant  generations,  and  which  had 
now  found  a  home  in  his  own  royal  abode.  For, 
though  he  was  not  permitted  to  build  a  house  to 
the  Lord  his  God,  yet  there,  upon  Mount  Zion,  the 


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jirk  nested,  a  tnlxMTiiiclo  was  [)itc'luMl  for  it,  mid  the 
micitnit  \v()r.slii[)  was  revived  with  n,  s])l(«iidor  mid 
dignity  wliicli  it  liad  novcr  before  e(|u;dl(>d.  Da- 
vid himself  add(!d  to  its  soii<i;s  of  praise.  It  awoke 
his  hi«;hest  aspirations.  It  inspired  his  saered 
biys.  J(Tusah'm  itself  was  loved  for  its  sake ;  and 
the  lioly  (^motions  which  chistered  aiound  it,  ex- 
teiuk'd  tlu^nsehes,  and  (>nihraeed  the  Saered  City 
and  all  wlio  dw(4t  within  its  avails. 

There  is  something  like  this  here.  We  arc 
fellow-countrymen,  all,  descended  from  the  same 
stock,  looking  back  to  the  same  mcestry,  niirtnrcd 
by  the  same  literature,  proud  of  the  same  history. 
We  arc  fellow-countrymen,  all.  Our  motlier-bind 
is  the  same,  whether  wc  ourselves  came  from  it, 
having  been  nursed  upon  its  bosom,  or  our  fathers 
came  hither  a  few  centuries  back.  The  links  that 
connect  us  with  the  past,  run  into  one  chain.  The 
streams  of  our  lives  flow  from  one  fountain-head. 
England,  Old  England,  is  our  common  mother. 
There  the  bones  of  our  ancestors  moulder  together 
beneath  the  same  clods.  The  memorials  of  our  race 
harig  together  over  the  same  shrines.  Our  names 
commingle,  and  run  back  to  the  same  fathers  and 
mothers.     The  same  blood  flows  in  our  veins. 


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Surely  tluTo  is  here  a  tic,  a  Imnd  of  \niioii, 
wliich  every  heart  before  lue  must  (le('i)ly  feel. 
But  there  is  another  and  a  holier  still.  AVe  are 
(leseeuded  from  the  same  j\[other  in  the  faith, 
'i'he  same  Creed  is  breathed  from  our  lips.  The 
same  prayers  ascend  from  our  altars.  Along  the 
line  of  our  sacred  worship  ■vve  trace  our  sj)iriti((il 
ancestry  back  to  the  same  dear  ^Mother  of  us  all, 
the  jj^ood  old  Cliureu  of  J'.ngland. 

While,  therefore,  I,  and  such  as  I,  come  from 
another  Lmd,  from  under  another  government, 
and  meet  you  here,  in  holy  greeting,  to-day,  and 
while  we  bear  with  us  the  thought  that  we  arc 
Englishmen,  all,  in  our  ancient  homes  and  our 
ancient  descent,  we  bear  with  us  also  another 
thought,  of  far  more  thrilling  impc^^'t,  which,  on 
such  a  day  as  this,  ma^  well  fill  our  hearts,  and 
become  the  ruling  spirit  of  the  occasion.  It  is  the 
thought  that  you  arc  one  with  us  in  the  faith; 
that  no  national  jealousies  or  national  animosities 
can  divide  us  here;  that  we  have  one  spiritual 
genealogy,  the  remembrance  of  which  has  never 
been  lost  amidst  scenes  of  strife  9-nd  bloodshed; 
that  it  is  one  unsullied,  unbroken  chain  of  holv 

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succession  from  the  Martyrs  and  the  Bishops  of 
the  early  Church  of  England;  that  Ave  look  back 
to  the  same  glorious  Ileformation  as  the  epoch  of 
our  common  deliverance  from  the  same  corruptions 
of  faith  and  worship,  and  farther  back  to  the  same 
origin  of  our  Churches  in  times  where  the  mists 
of  antiquity  obscure  the  record  of  the  rising  of  the 
Sun  of  Ilightecusness  upon  our  fixthers. 

We  are  Englishmen,  all,  far  more  in  our  faith 
and  worship,  than  in  our  secular  ancestry.  It  is 
this  sacred  tie,  originated  in  heaven,  which  binds 
us  most  closely  together;  and  while  we  speak 
"Peace"  to  you  as  "brethren  and  companions,"  be- 
cause we  spring  from  the  same  stock,  and  claim  the 
same  progenitors,  with  a  far  deeper  interest  do  we 
address  you,  and  address  the  ancient  land  of  our 
fathers,  as  partakers  in,  and  the  home  of  our  com- 
mon faith :  "  For  the  sake  of  the  House  of  the  Lord 
our  God  among  you,  we  will  seek  your  good." 

For  one,  T  have  come  to  this  place  and  to  this 
event,  with  the  earnest  and  controlling  desire  that 
I  might  do  something  to  strengthen  the  bonds  of 
union  between  the  Churches  of  England  and 
America.     I  have  come  with  the  hope  that  the 


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presence  here  of  even  one  Bishop  of  the  American 
Church  might  have  a  happy  influence  in  extending 
farther  that  catholic  mtercourse  which  lias  heen 
so  happily  begun  by  my  brethren  in  the  Episco- 
pate who  visited  England  during  the  last  year.  I 
do  not  come  with  official  authority  to  represent  the 
Church  which  I  have  the  honor  to  serve.  But  I 
do  come  with  the  same  spirit  which  prompted  our 
Bishops  to  send  their  delegates  to  the  jubilee  of  the 
Venerable  Society  for  the  Propagation  of  the  Gos- 
pel ;  and  the  occasion,  it  seems  to  me,  may,  in  some 
humble  degree,  be  productive  of  the  same  benefi- 
cent results. 

I  could  have  wished  that  other  members  of  our 
Ex)iscopal  body  had  found  it  in  their  power  to  be 
here.  Who  of  us  would  not  have  rejoiced  to  see 
them  standing  side  by  side  with  the  respected  Pre- 
lates* of  the  Colonial  Church  whose  presence  adds 
associations  of  peculiar  interest  to  the  auspicious 
services  of  the  day  I  Others,  I  know,  had  it  in 
their  hearts  to  be  here.     But  the  duty  which  has 

*  The  Bishops  of  Quebec  and  Toronto,  both  of  them  tinae-honored 
laborers  in  the  service  of  the  Colonial  Church,  and  the  former  once 
Rector  of  Fredericton. 


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detained  tliem,  has  left  me,  alone  of  all  tlieir  num- 
ber, free  to  come  and  express,  ir»  any  wise,  the 
greetings  of  the  Church  in  the  United  States.  I 
bring  them  to  you  cordially  and  heartily  ;  for  I  am 
well  assured  that  I  do  not  misinterpret  the  general 
feeling  of  our  Cliurch  when  I  say,  that  she  rejoices 
in  your  prosperity,  and  that  she  hails  the  rising  of 
another  tower  of  strength,  in  the  erection  of  this 
Cathedral,  with  unfeigned  gratitude  and  hope. 


And  now  let  us  turn  to  thoughts  more  directly 
appropriate  to  the  occasion,  —  the  Consecration  of 
a  House  of  God  to  the  sacred  uses  for  which  it  is 
designed.  Let  our  hearts  linger  about  the  scene 
which  opens  upon  us  here,  —  a  band  of  brothers, 
met  to  witness,  and  to  participate  in,  the  setting 
apart  of  this  sacred  abode  to  the  worship  and  ser- 
vice of  the  Triune  Deity,  for  ever.  Let  us  rise,  if 
we  may,  to  a  just  contemplation  of  the  greatness 
of  the  event. 

What  is  a  Consecration  1  What  does  it  signify  1 
It  signifies  the  setting  apart  or  devoting  to  God,  — 
it  may  be  of  a  Church,  it  may  be  of  some  minor 
article  of  property,  it  may  be  of  a  child,  as  in  Holy 


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Baptism,  it  may  be  of  a  man,  as  in  the  conferring 
of  Holy  Orders.  Here,  and  to-day,  it  is  the  Con- 
secration of  a  Church.  This  noble  bnilding  lias 
been  erected  by  hnman  instruments,  with  human 
means.  Man's  work  is  done  upon  it,  or  so  far 
finished  tliat  the  edifice  may  be  regarded  as  com- 
pleted. It  is  now  given  to  God,  a  holocaust,  an 
entire  offering  to  His  service.  Henceforth  it  is 
His,  and  His  only.  It  cannot  be  taken  away  from 
Him.  It  cannot  be  turned  to  any  secular  purpose. 
It  is  His,  alone,  and  for  ever.  It  is  no  more  man's, 
excepting  to  guard  and  keep  it  for  God.  Man  can 
have  no  control  over  it,  excepting  as  God's  steward, 
to  retain  it  for  God's  service,  and  to  see  to  it  that 
it  remains  for  ever  devoted  to  His  glory.  Who- 
ever lays  upon  it  the  hand  of  violence,  whoever 
tunis  it  to  any  secular  use,  at  any  time,  through 
all  the  ages  to  come,  is  guilty  of  sacrilege;  he 
steals  from  God ;  —  and  God  is   His  own   aven- 


ger. 


For  what  purpose  is  this  Church  consecrated  I 
It  is  consecrated  to  the  worship  of  God,  and  to  all 
the  uses  and  services  of  Religion ;  for  Holy  Bap- 
tism and  the  Holy  Eucharist,  for  Catechising  and 


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Confirmation,  for  Holy  Matrimony  and  Solemn  Iki- 
rial,  for  the  Keading  and  Preaching  of  God's  Word, 
and  particularly,  hecausc  most  commonly,  for  the 
Ohlation  of  Prayer  and  Praise,  of  Confession,  of 
Thanksgiving,  and  of  Supplication.  For  what- 
ever public  use  a  ministry  is  designed,  to  that  use 
is  this  House  of  God  for  ever  set  apart.  Here, 
through  all  ages,  shall  ascend  the  petitions  of 
humble  worshippers.  Hither  shall  broken  hearts 
be  brought,  and  here  shall  they  pour  out  their 
griefs  before  God,  the  Father  of  us  all.  Here  shall 
the  penitent  hear  the  soothing  sounds  which  pro- 
nounce his  pardon  in  the  Absolution.  Here  shall 
the  firm  believer,  with  mien  erect,  declare  his  faith 
in  the  adorable  Trinity.  Here  shall  the  needy 
suppliant  present  his  wants  to  the  bounteous  Giver 
of  every  good  gift.  These  walls  shall  be  vocal 
with  the  songs  of  Praise ;  and  the  gushing  tide  of 
Thanksgiving  shall  swell  backward  to  its  Source, 
the  Fountain  of  all  mercies.  Hither  shall  the 
mother  bring  her  infant,  with  the  deep  yearnings 
of  a  mother  s  love,  and  here  shall  she  consecrate  it 
to  her  God  in  the  regenerating  waters  of  the  Font. 
Here  shall  the  faithful  Pastor  rightly  divide   the 


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word  of  truth.  Here  shall  the  Sacrament  of  the 
Eucharist  raise  its  notes  of  penitence,  present  its 
oblation  of  thanksgiving-,  and  confer  upon  mortals 
a  "  banquet  of  most  heavenly  food."  Here  shall 
Catechumens  kneel  to  receive  the  sealing  of  the 
Holy  Ghost  in  the  sacred  Ordinance  of  Confirma- 
tion. Here  shall  vows  be  pledged,  and  trotli 
plighted,  and  the  nuptial  tic  be  blessed  by  God's 
Priest,  in  God's  Name.  Hither,  at  the  last,  when 
the  labors  of  earth  are  done,  shall  men  bring  their 
dead,  and  here  Avith  holy  prayer  and  requiem  shall 
they  consign  them  to  their  mother  earth.  Here 
shall  the  poor  and  rich  meet  together,  before  Him 
who  is  the  ^laker  of  them  all.  Here  shall  they 
gain  strength  for  their  mortal  pilgrimage,  be  re- 
minded of  their  sins  and  short-comings,  and  be 
stimulated  to  a  more  faithful  service.  Here  shall 
the  sons  and  daughters  of  want  be  fed  and  clothed 
from  the  Offerings  of  God's  people ;  and  hence  shall 
go  forth  faithful  men,  into  the  abodes  of  poverty 
and  disease,  carrying  the  ministrations  of  the  Gos- 
pel, the  voice  of  warning,  the  consolations  of  hope, 
the  Blessed  Sacrament  of  the  Body  and  Blood  of 
Christ  for  the  sick.     Here  shall  children  be  trained 


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for  Heaven  under  the  skilful  hand  of  the  Catecliist, 
the  Tiambs  and  the  Sheep  of  Christ's  flock  alike 
fed,  and  old  and  young,  rich  and  poor,  one  with 
another,  conducted  along  the  narrow  way  that 
leadeth  to  everlasting  life.  Such  is  this  House  of 
God.  Such  arc  its  uses.  Such  is  the  sublime 
purpose  to  which  we  now  consecrate  it. 

But  it  is  to  a  more  restricted  use  than  might 
possibly  be  implied  in  such  general  tenns  as 
tliese,  that  it  is  now  devoted.  It  is  to  the  use  of 
all  the  means  of  grace,  and  to  the  administration  of 
the  same,  according  to  the  Imvs  and  usages  of  the 
United  Church  of  England  and  Ireland.  Only  that 
which  she  has  sanctioned,  can  be  here  adopted. 
Only  the  Faith  which  she  professes,  can  be  here 
preached.  Only  the  Sacraments  whi:h  she  ac- 
knowledges, can  be  here  ministered.  And  it  is 
hardly  of  less  importance  to  declare  that  all  these 
things  should  be  administered  in  their  fulness.  It 
is  thus  alone  that  the  uses  of  this  sacred  House 
can  come  up  to  the  requisitions  of  its  Consecration. 
If  she  has  provided  that  daily  prayer  be  said  in 
her  Churches,  the  act  of  Consecration  implies  that 
to  that  also  this  holy  place  is  devoted.     If  she  has 


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rccopfnizcd  the  commemoration  of  Suints  and  An- 
gels in  her  liturgical  arrangement,  and  has  made 
provision  for  it,  the  corisecration  of  a  Church  to  the 
worship  and  service  of  God  according  to  her  order 
and  standard^  involves  its  dedication  to  that  purpcse 
also.  If  she  has  appointed  the  Athanasian  Creed 
to  be  read  on  certain  Festivals,  or  the  Commination 
at  the  opening  of  Lent,  or  whatever  else  is  provid- 
ed in  her  Book  of  Common  Prayer,  and  there  set 
forth  for  use,  to  those  things  and  to  that  use  is 
this  Church  now  consecrated,  —  if  so  he  that  it  is 
consecrated  to  the  worship  and  service  of  Almighty 
(jod  according  to  the  laivs  and  usages  of  the  United 
Church  of  England  and  Ireland.  As  you  cannot 
justly  exceed,  so,  if  there  be  a  possibility  of  per- 
formance, you  cannot  safely  fall  below  the  mark  of 
her  appointment.  She  is  yours.  Brethren,  with 
the  fulness  of  her  rich  provision  for  you,  with  her 
abundant  means  of  grace,  which  lack  not,  and  have 
nothing  over.  If  she  has  supplied  nothing  use- 
lessly, notlimg  superfluously,  it  is  not  well  for  you 
to  omit  what  she  has  prescribed.  There  is  naught 
but  nutritive  and  healthful  food  in  all  that  she  has 
provided.     Take  it  all,  for  it  is  all  your  own.     Re- 

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ceivc  it  all,  as  from  a  mother's  hand,  and  it  shall 
nourish  you  unto  cvorlastinf^  life. 

But  I  must  not  forget  that  this  Churcli  has  a 
peculiar  use  and  purpose  in  heing  the  Cathedral 
Church  of  the  Diocese.  It  is  the  seat  of  your 
Bishop,  the  Centre  of  your  ecclesiastical  unity,  the 
source  whence  the  most  potent  influences  will  ex- 
tend themselves,  like  concentric  circles  on  a  lake, 
throughout  your  Province.  It  is  this  which  gives 
the  day  its  most  notable  importance,  which  has 
brought  us,  members  of  the  same  Christian  house- 
hold, from  near  and  from  afar,  to  this  solemn,  yet 
joyous  assembly.  It  is  a  great  event,  —  wliich 
will  speak  to  generations  yet  unborn,  which  every 
Churchman  in  this  Diocese  will  take  note  of,  which 
will  attract  attention  throughout  our  Communion 
spread  far  and  wide  over  this  vast  continent,  which 
will  be  heard  of  in  the  islands  of  the  sea,  in  dis- 
tant India,  in  the  homes  and  by  the  firesides  of 
England,  and  throughout  the  illimitable  reach  of 
those  unequalled  dominions  on  wliich  the  sun 
never  goes  down.  It  is  a  voice  for  aU  nations  and 
for  all  ages  that  we  utter  here  to-day. 

But  that  to  which  I  would  especially  ask  your  at- 


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tciition,  in  connection  with  this  ahnost  overpower- 
ing thought,  is  the  character  of  this  edifice  among 
yourselves.  It  is  like  no  otlier  Church  that  rises 
on  your  soil.  It  is  not  simply  a  Parish  Church, 
although  it  provides  ahundantly  for  the  spiritual 
wants  of  those  immediately  around  it.  It  is  not 
local,  in  its  character,  or  its  influence.  It  is  your 
Diocesan  Church.  It  represents  the  oneness  of 
your  faith,  of  your  worship,  and  of  your  Christian 
fellowship.  In  olden  times,  heforc  our  modern 
parochial  system  was  extant,  when  the  Bishop's 
See  was  the  common  habitation  of  the  clergy,  and 
thence  they  wTut  forth  to  their  sacred  ministra- 
tions among  the  scattered  population  of  the  land, 
the  Cathedral  Church  bore  this  character  of  a  typ- 
ical unity  with  a  clearer  manifestation  than  at  pres- 
ent. But  this  essential  feature  and  its  signifi- 
cancy  are  still  the  same ;  and  fortunately,  in  your 
own  case,  the  idea  is  strengthened  and  impressed 
by  that  conformity  to  ancient  usage  which  has 
given  to  your  Diocese  the  name  of  the  Bishop's 
residence.  It  is  the  Diocese  of  Fredericton ;  and 
this  is  the  Cathedral  Church  of  Fredericton.  It 
indicates  what  the  Church  itself  indicates,  that 
here  is  the  central  point  of  your  unity. 


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But  it  is  iiocdful  to  add,  that  tlio  ('{itli(ulnd 
Church  derives  this  chai-aeter  only  from  its  heiu*^ 
tlie  seat  of  the  IJishop.  It  is  hecausc  your  ecclesi- 
astical unity  ^cr<^(?s  towards  and  centres  in  him, 
that  it  is  typified  hy  the  Church  in  which  he  per- 
sonally presides.  Otherwise,  this  would  present 
no  distinguishahle  diftcrence  from  any  parochial 
Churcli  in  your  Diocese.  The  Cathedrid,  therefore, 
teaches  a  great,  and  solemn,  and  religious  truth, — 
a  truth  which,  as  faithful  Churchmen,  you  have 
douhtlcss  learned  before,  but  which  is  conveyed  to 
you  anew,  and  with  a  deeper  impression,  in  all  the 
services  of  to-day.  It  reminds  you  that  your  Bish- 
op is  your  Head  on  earth,  the  Eepresentative  of 
Christ  in  the  seat  of  the  Apostles,  the  Centre  of 
your  visible  unity.  You  can  have  no  other  among 
men,  for  unity  cannot  have  two  or  more  sources  of 
procession.  The  circle  cannot  have  two  centres. 
So  neither  can  church  communion  have  two  con- 
flicting or  diverse  types.  Your  Bishop  is  one, 
even  as  this  Church  is  one.  Your  fellowship  in 
the  Church  Visible  attaches  itself  here,  to  him,  as 
the  point  of  your  common  union.  It  is  not  else- 
where, throughout  your  Diocese.  It  is  not  else- 
where, on  the  face  of  the  earth. 


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I  had  intrndcd  at  tins  tiino  to  ofi'cr  some  pnicti- 
cal   su<ro(>sti()iis   ros[)('('tin<^   tlic   offcctiiatiou    of  a 
CAitholic;  and  regulated  iiitercoininuiiion   between 
the  ('hureh  of  England  and  the  Chureh  in   the 
United  States.     But  there  remains  for  me  space 
only  to  say,  that  it  is  of  high  hnportanee  that  tliis 
mtereonnnunion  should  s[)eedily  attain  a  practical 
and  efficient  character.     It  will  not  be  confined, 
let  us  trust,  to  messages  of  good-will  and  compli- 
ments of  Christian  courtesy.     There  is  needed,  im- 
mediately, a  system  of  correspondence  and  com- 
bined action  which  will  have  to  do  with  the  tem- 
poral and  eternal  interests  of  men.     As  one  subject 
which  imperatively  demands  our  attention,  I  will 
allude  to  the  condition  of  members  of  the  Church 
of  England  who  come  from  the  old  country,  and 
from  the  Provinces,  into  the  United  States.     I  will 
illustrate  by  my  ow^n  experience,  premising  only 
that  I  see  no  reason  to  suppose  that  Boston,  the 
city  in  which  I  reside,  exhibits  a  more  melancholy 
picture  than  other  large  cities  of  the  Union.     Du- 
ring the  last  winter,  I  explored  a  small  portion  of 
that  city,  as  much  as  I  thought  might  be  ftiirly 
included  in  the  Parish  of  which  I  am  Eector,  if  we 


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hiid,  jis  we  <;('ii(M'5illy  li;iv(!  not,  in  thn  United  StJitcs, 
jKirocliial  limits.  I  cliost^  t\w  portion  which  l.iy  ini- 
ni(Mh;it(>ly  sidjiiccnt  to  my  Parisli  C'lmnh.  It  \)VV' 
sciits,  piohubly,  noithcr  an  ovcn-favorahh*,  nor  a  too 
nnf'avoral)lc  view  of  rosnlts.  I  could  liavo  selected 
II  much  more  needy  jmrtion,  or  one  where  tlie  con- 
clusion would  have  been  far  less  startling  than  in 
the  section  of  which  I  si)eak.  It  may  be  regarded, 
tlu^refore,  as  presenting  a  fair  specimen  of  the  con- 
dition of  the  poorer  classes  of  your  fellow-country- 
men who  come  to  the  United  States, —  and  a  great 
majority  of  those  Avho  come  are  of  the  poorer  classes. 
1  sent  through  this  district,  a  Deacon,  who  is  him- 
self an  1^'nglishnian,  but  has  lately  been  admitted  to 
Orders  in  the  American  Church.  lie  visited  every 
house  and  every  family.  The  result  was,  that,  in 
this  single  section,  embracing  probably  noi  more 
than  one  tenth  of  the  city  of  Boston,  he  found 
one  hundred  and  seven  families,  comprising  doubt- 
less more  than  five  hundred  souls,  who  were  mem- 
bers of  the  Church,  most  of  them  of  the  Church  of 
England  and  Irclard,who  were  living  in  utter  des- 
titution of  the  means  of  grace,  or  were  uncon- 
nected with  any  Parisli,  most  of  them  never  going 


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to  Church,  and  all  destitute  of  pastoral  ciue,  tlieir 
cliildreu  unhiipti/ed  and  uut;iu<;ht,  th(^  ])in'(Mits  in 
many  cases  aUeuated  iu  their  aflections  IVoni  the 
Churcli.  'J'his  estimate  does  not  include*  anothcT 
])ortion,  Avlio,  liavinj^  heen  l)ai)tize(l  in  the  Churcli 
of  J^nj^liuid,  liave  emi<;:rated  to  tlie  United  States, 
and,  after  a  tinu*,  have  conn(>cted  themselves  with 
some  Protestant  sect.  'J'hesc;  are  now  lost  to  the 
('hurcli,  many  of  them  irrecoN  erahly.  'J'li(>ir  num- 
ber, judging  from  the  frecjuency  with  which  we 
meet  them  in  our  household  visits,  nuist  be  very 
considerable.  Ihit  these  aside,  the  hundred  and 
seven  families  of  which  I  liave  spoken,  acknowl- 
edge themselves  still  as  members  of  the  Church 
of  England.  They  wen^  baptizcul  at  your  Fonts. 
They  have  been  taught  in  your  schools.  ^lany 
of  them  have  received  the  Apostcdic  Benediction 
of  the  laying  on  of  hands  in  your  Churches.  Not 
a  few  of  them  have  been  fed  at  your  Altars.  They 
arc  your  brethren  in  the  flesh,  as  well  as  your 
brethren  in  the  faith,  bone  of  your  bone,  your 
very  kith  and  kin.  And  yet,  (for  here  lies  the 
grand  cause  of  tiic  evil,)  they  have  been  allowed  — 
almost  without  exception  —  to  come  to  the  United 


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States,  from  EngLind,  from  Ireland,  and  from  the 
American  Provinces,  withont  so  much  as  a  com- 
mendatory Letter  from  their  Pastors  at  liome,  with- 
out a  certificate,  or  anv  other  written  evidence  of 
tlieir  memhership  in  tlie  Church.  When  we  re- 
ceive your  emi»2:rants  to  Holy  Communion,  (for, 
hesides  such  as  I  have  described,  there  are  others 
who  do  seek  a  connection  with  our  Parishes,  —  in 
my  own  Parish  I  presume  there  must  be  a  hundred 
such,)  we  are  compelled,  in  numerous  instances,  to 
r(^ceive  them  without  any  other  proof  that  the 
applicant  has  been  baptized  and  confirmed  than 
his  own  word  for  it.  Surely,  this  most  unprimi- 
tivc,  most  unchristian  state  of  things  ought  not 
so  to  be. 

Our  poor  also,  —  the  vast  majority  of  them  are 
of  the  Church  of  England.  In  my  own  Parish, 
which  is  largely  engaged  in  labors  among  this 
class,  probably  nine  tenths  of  our  regular  pension- 
ers were  baptized  in  the  Church  of  England,  and 
more  than  nine  tenths  of  our  charities  are  devoted 
to  such.  Besides  this,  the  occasional  applicants  for 
aid  are,  with  rare  exceptions.  Englishmen ;  and  « 
yet  an  applicant  next  to  never  has  with  him  any 


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proof  of  his  being  a  deserving  person.  His  Pastor 
lias  allowed  him  to  come  to  America  withont  any 
credentials.  He  fails,  perhaps,  to  find  work.  He 
falls  into  a  deeper  poverty.  He  becomes  sick.  He 
lias  no  one  to  go  to,  to  whom  he  can  open  his  heart. 
He  can  show  no  evidence  of  his  being  an  honest 
man.  The  more  honest  he  is,  the  less  willing  he  is 
to  make  his  wants  known,  without  some  better  proof 
of  his  good  deserts  than  the  aspect  of  his  misery. 
Your  best  people  suffer  the  most;  and  I  have 
known  them  to  suffer  almost  to  starvation  befon^ 
they  would  ask  relief,  when  a  bit  of  paper  from 
tlieir  old  Pastors  would  have  given  them  courage  to 
make  their  situation  knoAvn.  But  let  me  illustrate 
by  an  instance  in  point,  which  will  more  clearly 
convey,  and  more  deeply  impress,  my  meaning, 
than  a  \A'hole  serinon  full  of  generalities.  I  have 
seen  a  woman,  one  of  your  daughters,  a  young 
mother,  baptized  and  nurtured  in  the  Church  of 
England,  who,  with  her  child,  was  left  alone,  in  a 
garret,  in  one  of  the  darkest  alleys  in  one  of  our 
vilest  streets,  left  alone,  with  her  child  sick,  her 
means  exhausted,  her  time  occupied  with  attend- 
ing to  her  dying  infant,  no  work  to  be  found,  even 

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if  she  had  been  in  a  condition  to  do  it,  her  furni- 
ture sold,  excepting*  the  miserable  bed  on  which 
the  child  lay,  and  a  little  table  which  stood  by  its 
side,  while,  as  if  all  this  were  not  enough  to  fill  up 
the  cup  of  her  sorrow,  her  hard-hearted  landlord 
(and  yet  why  call  him  "  hard-hearted,"  for  he  was 
a  poor  man  and  was  obliged  to  live  himself)  was 
threatening  to  eject  her  from  his  premises  for  non- 
payment of  rent.  I  found  her  in  this  condi^*  n, 
one  bleak  night  in  winter.  She  was  without  a 
fire,  for  she  had  no  money  wherewith  to  purchase 
fuel.  Her  child  was  lying  on  the  bed  in  the  ago- 
nies of  death.  "  Oh,  if  he  may  only  be  christened," 
she  said,  "before  he  dies!  I  cannot  bear  he  should 
die  without  baptism."  I  baptized  the  child ;  and, 
on  inquiring  into  her  circumstances,  I  found,  and 
afterwards  more  fully  learned,  that  she  was  of  re- 
spectable parentage  in  her  own  country,  that  her 
husband  was  away  in  a  foreign  land,  that  she  had 
shrunk  from  making  her  condition  known  because 
she  had  no  recommendation,  and  that  for  two 
months  she  had  been  struggling  with  her  evil  for- 
tune, without  a  word  of  sympathy  from  any  Chris- 
tian soul.     Brethren,  beloved  in  the  Lord,  thes(^ 


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things,  I  again  say,  ought  not  so  to  bo.  That 
young  woman  told  nic  who  her  Pastoi  at  home  was. 
A  single  line  from  him  would  have  enabled  her, 
and  would  have  encouraged  her,  on  her  arrival  in 
Boston,  to  have  become  connected  v/ith  some  one 
of  our  Parishes.  Iler  wants  would  have  been  re- 
lieved; her  sick  child  would  have  been  nursed; 
perhaps  (for  he  died  a  few  hours  after  his  bap- 
tism) his  life  would  have  been  saved ;  work  would 
have  been  found  for  her;  an  honest  livelihood 
would  have  been  gained;  and  all  this  needless 
misery  would  have  been  spared. 

I  need  not  say,  after  depicting  such  a  scene 
as  this,  (and  I  have  only  illustrated  by  one  out 
of  many  instances  of  suffering,  of  vice,  of  alien- 
ation from  the  Church,  of  ne^;^  "^t  of  children, 
of  physical  and  mental  and  spiritual  degeneracy, 
which  have  come  to  my  knowledge  among  Eng- 
lish emigrants  in  Boston,) — I  need  not  say  that  I 
deem  it  an  imperative  duty  of  our  Churches  to  es- 
tablish some  system  of  communication  by  which 
our  members,  passing  from  one  to  the  other,  shall 
never  need  to  lose  the  pastoral  care  of  the  Church. 
It  is  a  subject  which  requires  our  immediate  atten- 


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tion ;  and  I  would  that  my  voice  could  reach  e\ery 
Bishop  and  Pastor  of  our  respective  Cliurches, 
while  I  beg,  in  the  name  of  needy  thousands  of 
men  and  women  and  children,  for  whoso  spiritual 
oversight  we  are  responsible,  for  the  speedy  resto- 
ration among  us  of  that  primitive  style  of  inter- 
course which  left  no  sheep  or  lamb  of  Christ's  fold 
without  the  Shepherd's  care  in  a  foreign  land, 
which  enabled  Christians  abroad,  as  at  home,  to 
secure  fraternal  sympathy,  to  find  an  Altar  whence 
they  miglit  be  fed,  a  Church  in  which  they  might 
kneel  as  recognized  brethren,  and,  amidst  all  the 
vicissitudes  of  a  sojourner's  life  in  a  strange  land, 
behold,  realized  to  themselves,  the  privileges  and 
benefits  of  the  Blessed  Communion  of  Samts. 


hi  i 


i  f 


Brethren,  my  words  draw  to  a  close.  Let  us,  for 
a  moment,  turn  our  thoughts  home  to  ourselves, 
and  to  the  duty  of  the  hour  which  is  passmg  away. 
If  there  arises  in  your  hearts  a  single  emotion  of 
thanlvful  gladness  at  the  sight  of  this  holy  and 
beautiful  House  completed,  if  there  sprmgs  witliin 
you  a  feeling  of  sympathetic  joy  m  the  happiness 
which  now  crowns  the  protracted  and  patient  and 


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sclf-sacrificing  labors  of  your  honored  Head,  the 
Bisliop  of  tlic  Diocese,  let  that  emotion  of  grati- 
tude and  that  feeling  of  sympathy  find  their  just 
and  appropriate  expression  in  abundant  offerings 
of  your  earthly  substance  laid  upon  the  Altar  of 
your  God;  and  let  this  solemn  Jonsecration  of  a 
Temple  to  His  service  be  accompanied  by  the  re- 
newed offering  of  yourselves,  your  souls  and  bodies, 
to  be  a  reasonable,  holy,  and  lively  sacrifice  unto 
Him.  The  day  will  come  when  we  who  are  now 
assembled  here,  in  God's  Name,  to  consecrate  this 
material  edifice  to  His  honor  and  glory,  shall  be 
gathered  into  a  more  august  assembly,  in  His  more 
glorious  presence,  for  a  more  sublime,  a  more  mo- 
mentous purpose.  It  will  then  be  asked  of  us, 
whether  we  who  have  builded  temples  of  wood  and 
stone  to  His  praise  on  earth,  have  raised  the  super- 
structure of  our  own  hope  upon  the  Rock  of  Ages. 
"  Other  foundation  can  no  man  lay  than  that  is 
laid,  which  is  Jesus  Christ."  He  is  the  sure  Cor- 
ner-Stone,  on  which  our  choicest  works  must  rise, 
based  upon  which  alone  they  will  surely  abide. 
He  is  the  Eternal  Hock,  upon  which  the  Church, 
with  her  beautiful  array  of  Sacrament,  and  Prayer, 


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jiiid  Btuicdictioi),  so.'irs  towards  licr  grand  and 
final  coni})lction.  Jlc  is  the  Hock,  upon  ■Nvliicli 
our  own  feet  must  stand,  while,  within  her  safe  en- 
closure, Ave  feed  upon  the  bounties  of  Ilis  love. 
On  Ilini  reposes  our  sidjliniest  faith.  From  Him 
springs  upward,  in  glowing  aspiration,  our  exult- 
ant hope.  On  Him  is  laid  the  firm  foundation  of 
those  deeds  of  charity,  which,  done  in  Him  on 
earth,  are  recorded  in  those  unerring  Books  out  of 
which  we  shall  be  judged  in  the  last  day,  eveiy 
man  according  to  his  works. 

U])on  that  Rock  may  this  your  goodly  Temple, 
reared  to  the  glory  and  worship  of  the  Triune 
God,  firmly  and  for  ever  stand !  And  when  the 
waves  of  Time,  beating  upon  the  silent  shore  of 
Eternity,  shall  have  borne  thither  us  who  now, 
amidst  the  ocean  of  life,  celebrate  the  rise  of  this 
hallowed  Fane,  may  He  who  preserveth  His  Church 
in  every  vicissitude  and  circumstance  of  her  eartlily 
pilgrimage,  keep  this  Beacon  of  truth  to  shed  its 
light  over  the  waters  whereon  so  many  voyage  to 
life,  so  many,  alas,  to  death.  May  that  light  never 
flicker,  never  fail !  But,  leading  wanderers  to  the 
Port  of  peace,  and  warnmg  the  guilty  of  the  hidden 


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rocks  on  which  they  arc  rushing,  may  it  cease  not 
to  iUuniinc  and  guide,  until  the  ocean  of  time  itself 
shall  disappear,  and  there  shall  rise,  in  its  stead, 
that  new  earth  which  will  need  no  light  of  hu- 
man temples  to  shine  in  it,  because  the  Lamb  of 
God  will  IIimsc4f  be  the  Temple,  Himself  the 
Light  thereof. 


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